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Subject(s)

• Foreign exchange [Browse]
• Prices [Browse]
• Commercial policy [Browse]

Series

• Routledge library editions. Economics. International economics ; 11. [More in this series]
• Routledge library editions. Economics. International economics ; volume 11 [More in this series]

Summary note

Covering the period 1550 - 1939, this book examines the history and development of theories of international pricing and trade.

Notes

First published in 1939.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 5, 2013).

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; PREFACE; CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. The four major problems in the theory of international price relationships: the Problems; 3. A bird's-eye view of the historical development of the theory; 4. The plan of the following chapters; CHAPTER II THE MERCANTILISTIC THEORIES; 1. Mercantilism: four stages of its development. The first period: before 1550
• 2. The second period: 1550 to 1620. The controversy concerning the price revolution (Hales, Malestroit, Bodin)3. The foreign exchange controversy; 4. Gerrald de Malynes; 5. The third period: 1620 to 1680. The balance of trade controversy (Mun and others); 6. Vaughan, Petty and Potter; 7. The fourth period: 1680 to about 1750. The first protectionist controversy (Cary, Pollexfen, Child, Davenant). North, a free trader; 8. John Locke and N. Barbon; 9. The doctrine that money stimulates trade and production: Law, Melon and Forbonnais
• 10. ""The semi-equilibrium doctrine"": Vanderlint, Cantillon and Harris11. Summary; CHAPTER III FROM DAVID HUME TO JOHN STUART MILL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLASSICAL THEORIES; 1. David Hume; 2. The Physiocrats and Adam Smith; 3. The Bank Restriction Controversy: 1797 to 1803: Boyd, Thornton and others; 4. 1803 to 1808: Foster and the Report of the Committee on Irish Currency and Exchanges; 5. Wheatley and Blake; 6. The report of the Bullion Committee. Ricardo, Malthus and Bosanquet. Contributions of the participants in the Bank Restriction Controversy; 7. Nassau Senior
• 8. The Bank Charter Act Controversy: the currency school (Norman, Loyd and Torrens) the banking school (Tooke and Fullarton).; 9. The restatement by J. S. Mill; 10. Summary; CHAPTER IV THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE; 1. The argument for a separate theory for international trade; 2. The doctrine of comparative costs: Torrens and Ricardo; 3. The same subject continued: Marshall and Haberler; 4. The doctrine of reciprocal demands: Longfield, Torrens, Pennington and J. S. Mill
• 5. Marshall's restatement of the theory of international value as an improvement upon the classical theory of international value6. Cost of transport as a factor in international trade; 7. The classical theory of international trade as the foundation of the classical theory of international price relationships.; CHAPTER V POST-CLASSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONETARY ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL PRICE RELATIONSHIPS: 1848-1918; 1. The controversy concerning the gold discoveries of 1848-1851: Austin, Stirling, Chevalier and Newmarch
• 2. The same subject continued: Levasseur, Cairnes, Jevons and Leslie

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ISBN

• 1-136-51597-6
• 1-136-51590-9
• 1-299-97805-3
• 1-315-01677-X

OCLC

• 862048820
• 860711669

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315016771

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